December Ride on Price Mountain

[CraigCreekRider]

Sunny and 70-ish, one half day of vacation left. I have been riding over in the Price Mountain area for a bit, but Kapusta has only come over there for trailwork. It didn’t seem fair and it wasn’t too hard to talk him into a ride there.

We opted to shuttle since we were short on daylight. 7 miles west of Fincastle on Rt 606 at the top of the pass we started. The “ride” starts with about 45 minutes of mostly hike-a-bike.


A few of the less steep sections were ride-able


Several false summits




Shadow man was following Kapusta around.


A quick break at the Sulphur Ridge trail intersection. Another good ride for another day.


Past Sulphur Ridge, the trail gets narrow and chunky.


Short video



Some un-rideable stuff, but most is rideable at least in one direction or the other

Back on two wheels


Kapusta checking out the “Stairway to Heaven”, not really ride-able in this direction by mortals

An earlier pic from the same spot


Kapusta riding some off camber leafy stuff


As far as physical exertion, the first 3 or so miles of this ride ranks pretty high. Similar to Dragons Back, maybe a little harder than most sections of DB.

2 off-camber stretches require a lot of mental attention


After 3 miles or so the heart-rate goes down a bit

One spot has a view to die for

On past Kelly Trail, most of the hard work has already been done

I was there too


Kapusta entering the ”luge” section of Price Mountain trail, it is a blast



Good Stuff

[kapusta]

Hey, I had totally forgot to send you the pics I took. I'll send them to you and post a few here. Good ride.

[CraigCreekRider]

It was a good one Kapusta.

We will probably do a couple of trail work days over there sometime between Christmas and New Years. Maybe one day do a ride through from Kelly trail with clippers and a saw and clean that 2 mile or so section that still needs TLC. If anyone wants to join, PM myself or Kapusta.

[CraigCreekRider]

Map
Price Patterson Mountain Bike Ride

Everything is open on the Price Mountain side now (Price Mountain Trail, Kelly Trail, Sulphur Ridge Trail and the Wagon road).

[Doedrums]

So awesome. I have to ride with you guys sometime.

[kapusta]

Here are some of my pics:

Steve coming down on the ridge-line. There is a trail somewhere under those leaves.


Another section of the ridge-line:


Another shot of the rocky sidehill section.

[CraigCreekRider]

Thanks for pics Kapusta. It will not hurt my feelings to see the leaves die down a little bit. We need some rain or snow on them.

[swampboy62]

Looks like a great ride. The view, the ridge top, and the rocks - wow.

Steve Z